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The awakening of China. is tavern,.
theme for writees uowadays. The vet
eibilities are So Many if that ancient
empties does neve an upheaval thin
renumeing s weer. 'What is actusttle
, dime• is likely to Miew closely the niece
laid dewn 14 govereueent, prociathin
Mem The changes made may be radi-
cal, but they aro apt to be gradual one
rather Mon sudden and revolutionary
The trauslation of an imperial decree ei
the emprees dowager has been reeeiven
b. diploznetie &des which forecas1:.
the probable developments of the imme-
diate future. This paper asserts that
nations are Influenced by ono another.
thal Chinese institattioes have remainea
unehangen so long that , conditions
threaten danger' mut &tester, end con-
sequently then China niust broaden its
knewledge by a study of comparative
political science.
As a help in thls direction the govern-
ment appointed a commtssion to visit
other countries and melee careful ob-
servations. The report frorn these gen;
Melton deelares that. the trouble with
• China is the lack of participation of the
people in the government and the went
of cooperation between the capital end
the provinces. "The officials are ignor.
• 'ant of the needs of the people, and the
people do not understand what is neces-
sary to the safely of the state." Tee
wealth and strength of other countries
are due to constitutional government
under. whien public questions are des
tenained after consultation with the
people, money is raised witli the con-
sent of the people, and the limits of
authority are clearly defined and under-
stood. In such countries there is con-
stant study of the acts of others, one
learning from the other and making
modifications of policy as a. result of
such enlightenment.
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The conclusion is plain. If China is
ta develop it must have a constitutional
government. The people must be en-
couraged to cooperate with the crown.
But China is net ready for such a
sweeping change. Educational facilities
must be.extended. The financial so.
tem muse be put in order. The military
must be reocg,anized. Tho police cone
trot throughout, the empire must be per-
fected. The gentry and the people must
be taught to understand political
affairs thoroughly. By such prepara-
tions •the foundations of constitutional
government will be securely laid, and
then, after a few years, such a pelitical
organization will be ,started with a fair
chance of satisfactory working.
The proclamation probably indicates
what may be expected during the corn-
ing years. Its frankness is interesting
when compared with ocaidental me-
thods. The "awakening" 'seems a real
thing. It may not bring a. disruption of
the great empire, as many, have
thought. It may result in one of the
great constilutiOnal governments of the
future. Most constitutional reforms have
come through revolution and bloodshed.
The deliberate recognition of e situation
which needs improvement and the. defi-
nite planeing , for. goverenental, changes
make, the Chinese, movement a specially
interesting one.
The English cast oil on the troubled
, roads. Dust 'raising is a nuisance of
such magnitude that various civic and
official anti -dust experiments have been
made. Quite setisfactory 'results have
been secured in Liverpool through the
use of on sprinkled upon macadam
roadways. The serface having the
cleanest and whitest- ;appearance was
that coated with creosote oil mixed with
resin, while that covered with creosote
mixed with tallow had the least odor.
The Texas crude petrOleurn gave the
most lasting results. After oiling the
wear and tear of the road appears to be
less. The surface of the road dries more
quickly after rains, and the number of
loose stones picked up has been re-
duced. The first sprinkling kept, the
surface in good order for three weeks,
at the end of which time it was theught
advisable to re-cover the area. The
effects of the oil an thesurface after 'a
second coating had been applied. had not
entirely disappeared after the lapse ef
five weeks. 'Oiling wood pavements in
Liverpool was done M the' stune man-
ner caul the dust Satisfactorily .teelet
down., a result not previously obtained
even by watering four times a day.
Hee Mother -"I saw him kiss you. I
annerribly shocked. I did not for a me -
meet imagine he would dare to take such
a liberty." Herself -"Nor did I, ma, In
fact, I bet him a pair of gloves he
daren' t
"That Mrs, Sawbones always allude's
to her husband as 'the dear &maw sr
"Well, that's the kind of doctor heels."
A man isn't,. vessrily erooked be-
:ause •ha follosve his natural bent.
IN TROIIBLE AND AFFLICTION'
Faith in God's Providence Is a Solace For
Ali Our Ills
It
is thou who hes set up all the
boundaries of• tlio earth, summer anti
winter -thou thyeelf bast formed them.
-PealMs lxxiv. 17.
The psalmist and all the godly men
and prophets of the biblical age attaia-
eit their greatness Ann distinction, not
• through scientific researches, nor
through art and philosophy, like the
ancient wise men of Rome and Creep,
• but through their childlike confidence
and faith in the Almighty.
From such a faith they not only drew
tnek inspiration but also their moral
strength and solace in gloomy hours of
trouble and affliction, In all the occur-
rences of life -in the summer, when the
-sun of happiness smiled en therm• and
in the Mitten when life seemed to them
delete and dreary -they beheld the finger
of God, Hence the ono could not ren-
der -them vain and.overbearing and the
other could not dishearten and render
them
DESPONDENT AND DOWNCAST.
, "For everything that emanates from
Rim has •been calculated for man's wel-
fare."
Those holy mere of old °firmly believ-
ed that all naturalphenomena, summer
and winter, have their origin from and
their existence in Him.Hence they
• never shirked their &dies, neither
amidst the torrid heat of summer, Mir
amidst the freezing cold of winter. Pat-
riarch Jacob, therefore, whose vocation
in his younger days was that of a shep-
herd, tells how conscientiously he kepi
Labarns sheep, saying "in the day the
heat consumed me and Um frost bee
night and 'My sleep departed from my
eyes."
A firm and childlike conadence and
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SOME DAINTY DISHES..
Pastry Fingers. -When next you are
making pastry, save some to make into
fingers. Hell out into a. piece about Use
size of a Yorkshire pudding tin. Take
ft sharp knife, dip it into flour, and cut
the pastry into. lengths about one inch
wide. Bike in a sharp oven till donee
Spread one piece with raspberry ,or apri-
tet jam, lay anothensplece on Wand slit
fine white sugar over. Pile these sand-
wiches neatlyon a d'oyleya and you
have a pretty dish for tea or dinner.
For a Plain Suet Pudding. -Take
three-quarters of a. pound of flour, add
to it a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful of
baking powder, and a quarter of a
pound of very finely -chopped suet.
When these ingredients are mixed, add
sufficient milk to make all into a stiff
dough. Put into a greased mould, and
boil at a gallop for two hours and a
half and longer if time permits. Serve
with jam, treacle, or sauce, ,and you
will have a delicious pudding. Long
boiling is most important.
Potatoes and Cheese. -This is a tasty
dish, and the materials required for it
are often thrown away, as the cook
doesn't know how to utilize them. Well
grease a pie -dish with dripping, scatter
breadcrumbs over it and some grated
cheese. Take some cold mashed pota-
toes, add a little milk to moisten, and
some more cheese. Place this in the
dish, scatter grated cheese on the top,
mixed with breadcrumbs. Dab 'little bits
of dripping or butter on the top. Brown'
before the fire or in'the oven and serve
hot.
.Stewed Mutton and Macaroni. -- Cut
one pmmd • of breast of mutton into
small pieces. Slice one onion, • one tur-
nip, two carrots, and a stick of- celery.
Put a layer of the vegetables in a sauce-
pan, then a layer of meat, then season
all with pepper and salt. Next have a
layer of meat, then season all, and add
the rest of the vegetables. • Pour over
three pints of water, bring to the boil,
and cook all gently for an hour. Put in
half a pound of macaroni, and simmer
till all is tender. Turn into a deep
dish, scatter chopped parsley over and
serve.
A spice plaster is a very useful appli-
cation in cases of severe colic in chil-
dren. Toprepare this, take one part
even of cinnamon, allspice, cloves and
ground ginger, with or without a very
little cayenne pepper, aecording as the
plaster is to be strong or weak. Mix
well together and put it in 0 flannel
bag, spread evenly and quilt the bag to
prevent the spices getting into• lumps.
Before applying this plaster wet it with
a little warm whisleys or water. The
same bag may be used repeatedly until
ft begins to lose its strength.
Medicated prunes are an old world
remedy Which bid fair in modern nur-
series to become popular again. Take a
quarter Of an ounce of senna and man-
na (as obtained from a druggist), and
pour over it one pint of boiling water.
Cover and place by the side of the.fire
to infuse for an hour, covered tightly,
then strain the liquor into a china lined
saucepan and 'stir in a wineglassful of
really good treacle. Add half a pound
of the best prunes, putting he sufficient
to absorb all the liquid while cooking.
Then Cover the vessel tightly and let the
vhole sitrimer for an' hour, or till the
Moue of the prunes are loose. If
Cooked too long, the fruit will taste
week and insipid. When done, place in
a dish to 0001 and pick out all the
stOrtes. These prunes Are so good that,
children often enjoy them for their sup-
sser.
For a cheese souffle take a teacupful
or grated cheese, the same quantity Of
fine White breadcrumbe and milk, a
pleee of butter the size of a walnut, twO
whites of eggs and one yolk, eayenne
weeper and salt, felaee the milk, bread-
ertfrribs, and cheese in.a oeucepan and
faith in the •fact that all the works 4
nature have -been formed and ordained
wisclY and so bOautifullY by the Al-
mighty is of incalculable good, 11 18 ele-
vating, edifying,. encouraging and. ideal-
izing. True religion and such a faith
eire inseparably united. One without the
other Is worthless and ineffective.
Had not the psalmist been imbued
with suchefaith he Could never have en-
riched the world with his sacred psalms
and seteet hymns e Ilad -not the divine
men and prophets of old. been animated
with such a, faith they would have been
unable to ppur teeth the sublime eats).
tions and holy effusions which have
been transmitted to mankind through
the medium of
HIS HOLY SCRIPTURE.
How much improved would mankind
be collectiveln and individually if they
adopted and fostered the psalmist's faith.
"It is Thou who has set up all the boun-
daries of the earth; summer and winter
--Thou Thyself hast formed thorn."
Since the all -wise Creator has called
into extstence- the milverse•and all things
therein, and since He In His endless
•grrece sustains and upholds all Its -handi-
work, it Would be unreasonable to as-
sert that man, the best werkmanship
of the Creator, is left uncared ler and,
eXposed to the pranks of blind chance.
We should, therefore, implant in our
hearts the faith of the psalmist. " We
should never forget that we stand un-
der God's providence, which guides our
steps and directs our path. Then we
should surely be cautious not to incur
1 -lis righteous displeasure. but strive to
please Him and sanctify His hely mune
by our noble deportment and exemptary
actions.
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Id , all heat very slowly till the cheese
le dissolved. Add the butter, and sea-
son nicely. Whip the whites of egg
very stiffly and beat the yolk separately.
Take the milk, cheese, etc., off the fire
and let il. cool, then add the yolk of an
egg; season to taste. Butter a pie -dish
lightly, add the white of an egg to the
mixture, pour into the dish. and bake
for twenty minutes in a quick oven.
Serve at once, or the souffle will go down
and be spoilt.
• HINTS FOR THE HOME.
To .polish 'kitchen knives .thorotighlY
Mix a little carbonate of soda with the
• brickduste-and 'rub. them ,thoroughly.
Table linen that 'has-been stained With -
It -1k should be at once •soaked in milk
end ' then the Stains nvill-,ebrne, Mit with
washing.
To Clean Black Cloths -Mix one part
ot liquid ammonia with three parts of
boiling water. Apply with a sponge
and rinse off with boiling water.
To keep your fowls healthy they
should have all the vegetables left Irons
Rio house, either boiled or raw. Give
them also any , scraps of meat and
bones to pick.
If boiled water is used for drinking
purposes, care should be taken that tne
water boils for ten or fifteen minutes be-
fore it is poured out. We are informed
by a. doctor that this time is necessary
L a kill, the germs.
A walnut stain is made thus. Take
Iwo parts of permanganate of potash
and thirty parts of water. Mix well.
Paint this on to the floor two or three
times until the right shade is produced.
Afterwards polish well.
Biscuits are a whadesome form of
food, if not too rich. All plain biscuits
may be considered more nourishing than
bread. At any rate they areefor stout
.people. who shetild always select rusks
.1thel .cracknels in preference'lo toast: -
OMELETS.
Omelets are helpful 'in • solving the.
problem of getting a sufficient number
of dishes fer the light breakfast, as
there is an almost unlimited variety. To
be successful the pan should be clean
and smooth, they must be eaten imme-
diately; the omelets should be .srnall,
four eggs being better than six, and the
eggs must not be beaten too much.
Plain Oinelet.-Beat the yolks of four
eggs, add four tablespoonfuls of water,
first mixing • one-half teaspoonful of
flour in a tablespoonful of the Water;
put in one-half teaspoonful of salt and
a dash of pepper, then gently fold In the
beaten whites. Drop one-half table-
spoonful of butter int() a hot frying
pan, tipping the pan sothat the sides
and bottom will be thoroughly covered.
Turn in the omelet quickly, and when
the dente° looks dry run a knife around
the edge, then under the half nearest the
handle and fold over. Slide carefully
onto a warm- platter and garnish with
parsley.' Serve'.immediately.
Chicken Omelet. -Make a plain ome-
let, but just before folding spread
creamed . chickenwell seasoned, over
the top. • Find and' serve.. •Creamed 'fish, -
asparagus and catitifloWer can be used
in this way.
Spanish Omelet. -Chop ,flne one.green
pepper from. which the seeds and stems
have been removed, tsvo medium-sized
tomatoes, one small onion, a .sprig of
pa Aley, three thin slices of •fried bacon,
and floe inushroornse add a tnblespoon-
ful of butter, • season with salt and
simmer for fifteen minutes. Have a
plain omelet mitcle, spread this hot
dreeeing over the top, end fold, then
pour the remainder around the omelet'
before serving.
Ham Omelet. -To thee yolks of 'four
eggs add tour tablespeonfuls of water.
a small teacupful of finely eeeppeei
ham, and a few sprigs of parsley, and
but vigoronsly. Beat whites stiff, and.
gently stir them inte the mixture. Have'
a tablespoonful of buttee tecatted in a
spider, pour in the omelet end stir with
A fork lilt it becomes; quite thick. Cook
five rninetee over, a' brisk nee, fed and
serve garnished' with parsley.
THE STINDAY SCROOL
INTERNATIONAL LES§ON.
NOV, 18.
Lesson VII. Jesus Odom Calaphes.
Golden Text; Isa. 53.3.
TilE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Note. -The text of the Revised 'Version
Is used as a basis for these Word
Studies.
Armes and Calaphas.-Annas, the on
of Seth, was high priest of the Jews
from A. 1). 0 or 7 to A. D. 15, Even
after being deprived of his higlaprieetly
office by the Boman Authorities he still
retained in a large measure both the
power anti the nigeity of his former
• station tinning the' Jews, .1.71\e SOW, and
one son -In-law • (Canginas) succeeded
him in turn in the office of high priest,.
The family of Armes belonged to the old
Sadducean aristocracy and derived its
immense wealth, in part at least, from
a monopoly \snitch the family held on
the sale of all kinds of articles neces-
sary in connection with MO sacrificeS
offered ire the temple. It Was the sons
of Anna s whom Jesus accused Of mak-
ing his Father's house a "den *of
thieves" and it was the Vessel salesthen
of this high -priestly family, whom 'Jesus
had driven from the nourts of the
temple. „So strong was the inthience'of
Annas•in the Sanhedrin that even dur-
• ing 'the incumbency Of his sons and
son-in-law in office he remained the
real power in Jewish religious affairs.
IL was for this reason that "the band
and the chief captains, and the Officers
Of the jeers," Who had seized Jesus 'and
bound him, "led him to Armes first" as
John is careful to point out (John 18.
12, 13). In John, also as well as in Acts,
Annas is given the title "high prices,"
though in Me narrative of John at least
it is evident, that the narrator was fully
aware of the relation, between Annas
and Cataphas and also of the fact that
•the latter, was the actual incumbent of
the office, .
Catapha.sv too, was a man of strong
though wicked character. It was he
who, professing to fear that the popular
demonstration in favor of lents con-
nected with the triumphal entry and
other events would bring upon the city
the displeasure of the 'Roman authori-
ties, counseled the Jews that it were
better "that one man should die for the
people and that the whole -nation perish
not" (John 11. 50); thus, as the evan-
gelist points out, becoming uncon-
sciously a priestly ping:het of the atone-
ment. It' was Caiaphas who took the
leading' Part At -).he first -infoinriel meet-
ing of the Sanhedrin mentioned in the
texteof our terday!selesson.
Vele 57. - In the verses immediately
predening this lenie,' Matthew records%the
incident of .Peter's • drawing his sword
and ...cutting off the ;ear . of tho. high
priest's servant, which Incident is also
'recorded by the other evangelists. See-
ing that their Master had been netrayed
and was to be led away a prisoner "all
the clisciplee 'left him and fled" (Matt.
26. 56). Mark records the incident of the
young man who had followed Jesus and
who, being seized . by those who took
Jesus prisoner, barely., escaped, his
clothing having been torn from him in
an effort to hold him. Having bound
their prisoner securely the soldiers took
him fleet to the Jewish authorities under
whose immediate - direction' they were
acting. Matthew omits the examination
before Armes.
To the house of Calaphas-The words,
Rio house of, do not occur in the Greek
where the reading is simply to Cala,
phas.
The scribes and the elders -Members
of the Sanhedrin who had been hastini
stumnoned to an informed 'meeting
shortly after midnight. Matthew is
careful to mention the more formal ses-
sion of tliceSanhedrin,which occurred in
the morning: "Now when morning Was
coine, all the chief priests and the
;elders of Rio, people . thok counsel
against Jesus teePunnicre to death.":
58. Court- ofthe high priest -A court
in,' the high-paiestly palace. From thd
:Garden' of 'Gethsemane Jesus had .been.
teilieh 'fleet tO •Arineef thence after dbrief
examination, recoedecl in Jahn 18. 19-23,
to Caiapleas in another part of the same
building.' Here some members of the
Sanhedrin had hastily gathered, and
Rio first, informal trial of Jesus took
place at night (Comp. Mark 14. 52-65;
Luke 22. 54, 63-65). Early in the morning
a second and more formal. trial was
held by the Sanhedrin (Comp. Luke 22.
60-71; Matte• 27. 1; Mark 15. l)4 ..Later,
prgbably netween five and'seven o'clock
in the rnorning occurred Rio trial be-
fore- ' Pilate . which consisted of two
partsin the intermission between
which Jesus waS sent, by Pilate to
Herod (Cents). Luke 23. 1-25; Matt. 27.
11-31; Mark 15. 1-20; John 18. 28-19, 161.
60. Afterward came two -The number
crergintlicir.ed to convict a prisoner of a
61. The temple -Or, Sanctuary.
Build it in three days -The- actual
words of Jesus referred to ere found in
John 2. 19, "Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up." It 18 to
be noted that while Jesus referred to his
death 'and edsurreetion after three 'days.
In the words quoted, yet from his -use
of . the wade in connectien with his
cleansing of the temple, and in ;tremor
to it challengeof the Jews to show'thern
n3 Sign, establishing hie authority. it erns
easy- to pineeemon the worde of jeans
• the mistaken • Interpretation which. tne
Jews gave to them, if indeed it erns
roneathle for thosN‘erott,edls) ihnentracill3iomthelo
undertand r
sltis
5011n513.
thou nothing? --A gees -
lion of despots -dime We note Met the
charge made. by Me twe witneeses and
referred to in the preceding %Tree \tees
net pushed egninst JPRI IS by he anye,
tn. t • ndjure thee by the liviser neat -
'federates, despairing of inane g env
(anew of Whale inmost erreieo the
netnews, enrirptiv ehrillen yes i)hn rr,
rnal mint al hese between ientsels
1
rtf\11Tocli e4;111)je:t7trir'tirinl grilliYhYtir:111,
r11‘,701.,.; Irt'tilwhich in Reese' is usually poSitical
iron Rio nen re Res settees, dese et ell' Ao far. as• influence is coneerned.
Tell us %cliental' Mote net the Christethe She Was: Only 16 when Alexander died, '
Son of Ged. This challenge to definitely
declare himself with regard to Ins Mee;
elatins Jesus answered unflincts
Ingly and whit lull knowledge of what
• Rio =sequences of a detente end public
declaration of his divinity would be to
04. Ileneeforth ye shall See the Son of
eten sitting at the right. hand of Power
-As if Jesus had soh!, "I ain indeed the
Christ, the Son of the living God, and
henceforth ye elan see hint whom yc
thr tQltektrrigmelitlyasofu ll'iSeoSn'o°1if oNfluGliet de.'x' ted
65. Rent his garments- As custom
required of the high priest before whom
a prisoner had been convieted of blue.
:Meaty. The act was intended As an
outward .stgn of sorrows' in Ude ,case of
• pious horror.
fle spoken,bleenherny-For one
who rejeeted the • claims of Jesus no
jtoubl stoitedernecaeirdneeirr.dal.teiot was iephossIlieblepriiistollrelerwttiodf
• 66. Ile is worthy of death -tinder the
Boman rule the JeWish authatitieS were
not permitted to pronounce- or execute
death sentence. •Hence, While the Sans
hedrin leembers assembled considered'
their prisoner "worthy of death," it was
still necessary for them to bring senile
formal charge against. him before the
Roman authorities, and secure from
them a conviction and death Sentence.
67. BuffelL-To strike with clenched
Rat'.
with• the palms of their hands -The
meaning of the phrase in the. original
is not clear, The marginal reading of
the .Revised Version is with rods.
68. Prophesy unto us, thou Christ --
'The demand of those Mon reveals' the
coarse, populat idea. of prophecy,• ac-
cording to •which it is meaningless ex-
hibition of miraculous power.
'EMPRESS' NERVES BREAK
RUSSIAN DOWAGER AT LAST YIELDS
TO TERRIBLE STRAIN:
'Rey Name Is On the List
to be Exterminated
Terrorists.
Al. last the Russian terror has broken
dawn the steel nerves and the iron con-
stitution of one who has been described
as the most •high-spirited and calmly
courageous Woman that the present
generation has. seen. This is the Dow-
ager Empress. of Russia, sister to the
Kings of Denmark and Greece and the
Queen of England, and mother of Czar
Nicholas II. Her husband was the late
Alexander one .of the few Russian
EiriPerors who have been allowed -to die
decently in bed.
While the Empress is 59 and has
lived eince-she.Was a girl nn'•the health -
destroying Russian coort, stie- vhas until
two years ago enpeori of remarkably
youthful Appearance, slim figure and
buoyantly hepefundisp,osition. She even
rivaled her -Sielor, Alexandra .of Eng-
land, who is only three years her sen-
ior, in the exquisite preservation of all
her charms.
Though never •at any time has she
boasted' the beauty of the English
Queen, she has always rejoiced in the
possession of an intellectual vivacity
that was inherited from her mother,
Queen Louise of Denmark,' and like old
Queen Louise,' Dagmar, as she has al-
ways been called in spite of her change
of name on entering the Russian
Charch, was deeply and
-.DETERMINEDLY AMBITIOUS.
Moreover, she was her shreerd mo-
ther's favorite daughter, and to her mar-
riage the coneort.- of the good and mild
old King Christian devoted the great
of Individuals
by the
diplomatic skill she possessed. Nothing
indeed in all her long and successful
life gave Queen Louisa the satisfaction
that she derived from the union of her
second daughter in 1866 with the then
Czarevitcn of Russia, who later became
Emperor Alexander
-Fortunately Me mother-in-law of Eu-
rope, as Queen Louise was sometimes
called,' 'died 'before troubles thick and
'fast began to 'fell in. the path of hee
child. For .a.11 gossip to the contrary,
end in spite of the zevere etiquette of
the'llussian court, as. svell. as the very
gloomy temperament of Eniperor Alex-
ander and the daily peril in which Rus-
sian rulers have lived since the rise of
Nihilism,. pawner was for years one of
tho happiest women on thrones in Eu-
rope.
&nue of the old Vining spirit if her
ancestors was in the lijood of tall, slim,
Dagmar; it shoe in:lier lag, brilliant
sea -blue eyes and it is declared. by those
who helped to guard her and were with
her in 'mornents of' surprise and danger
that she nester seemed to understand
the meaning of the word, fear. Not. once
or twice but -frequently in her career as
wife of the heir and then of the occu-
pant of the Russian throne did she look
death in the face as it threatened her -
Self, her husbend and her children, and
never once was she known to blanch or
snivel? od" Mee her presence of mind.
She knew that poison, the knife, a bul-
let or a bomb might at any instant
hurl tier into eteretty or snatch' one o1.
her loved ones Irma her; always" her
giant husband' brooded over the possi-
bility of a quick and tesrible end, hut
she kept ever a ,
LIGHT ANI) CONFIDENT HEART.
Her superb health and the zest with.
which she could endure the severest
round., not only of court entertain-
tainments,, but elill more exhausting
ecligious ceremonials, were alSo ree0111-
menelatiens to popularity. How much
the Empress prized her popularity and
the authority that came from II le indi-
cated 1.1y the grief site now suffers be-
cause it liar; vanished, and she has been
hunted out of the country in which once
she was So esteemed.
But how- much that popularity rested
rrn the good ethrice and affectionnte con-
trol exercised by her husband 000 only
he measured by the fact that friers the
moment or his dont it began to' wane,
the wife of the meet powerful montireh
in Rio •world had not fitted the sl
youthful Ilegilar for •doivagernood.
•
aallierifniurateedes,iately after bis
Russian people fairly wept like children
ltr
They knew the Story of thoee heavy,
Inouths \viten she had' tenderly and
with her two strone white hands'
nursed her husband; they saw her go
witli-
01.1uutsnpigincititilitnegor
xceneloLitaigs fititeereLl
otto of lite duties of it, and they were
not at all inclined to like the new Bin
press.
Soine good people just at fins time
drew a pretty Pietas° of the Dowager
in retirement and cultivating the art of .
being a grandmother, but the vigorous
1/aernar liadnno notion at all Of doing
that. Though as a wife and mother she
had been a thorough success, as a
mother-in-law she made haste to dis,
play another side of her oharactee, and,
seeing that Nicholas was no such man
as his father, and, litinking Mut his
wife, pretty Allx of Hesse, it weal:line
too, she decided to remain in Bessie and
take a -strong ,.hand mn
• DIRECTING BIG AFFAIRS.
Though her husband, doting in Men,
things as he had been, had never shared
witil her his State cares, Dittmar AVa$
ever a 'good friend of Mostof his bro-
thers and his uncles and the -Grand
Dukes courted' her nal and, influence in
managing Nicholas It. It was thus in.
deed andunfortunately that this woman
was brought into thesnare of politics
and quickly down to her ruin.
'• She hated to give up her crown to het
daughter-in-law, ,to get out .of her -
moms in the palaces; and though Alex.,
ander had left, her treineadously rich in
monenmid jewels, she paesionately rd
sented giving up the usce.of the great
'regalia and, the lesser creein gems that
only an Empress consortis privileged
to year. Notorious at the time Was the
struggle .that went on for months be-
tween daughter and mother-in-law over
a certain set oi marvelous. pearls that
the Dowager all but refused to resign.
And so, from bad to worse, Went the
domestic situation, until the contest be-
tween the two women was exteeded
from the question of pearl's to the right
to inffiterice the son and husband.
For some years the Dowager held
her power over her son. 11 is probable
that she advised him to follow, hie fa- ,
ther's policy, and she still held one of
the trump cards in her game with her
daughter-in-law, because lacking the
birth of a son to Nicholas the Grand
Duke George was .heir to the thrones
But 'somehow with the death of Ther
husband -Dagmar's long run of luck
Came to an abrupt encl. Grand Duke
George died miserably of lung trouble,
and at his death. 'hie' Mother not only
suffered, but the loss seemed to harden
her. At court she formed a party de-
voted to her interests, she invested
GREAT SUMSOF- MONEY
,
in Nfai,tao. mismanaged hfaiichurian en-
terprises, sho dabbled in dangerous
polities, arid so from being the most
loved*she came to be the most detested
.woman.ie Eastern Europe.
- Violent accusations of 'extrevagence,
of keeping in her pay an army of .spies,
-whose busiaeas.it was .to ferret .out .the,.,
-names of plotters against her life 'and
that of the Grand Duke Michael, the only
son save Nicholas. now left, were brought er
against her by enemies. They evenseaerd
went further and accused her of ad-
vising the Grand Duke Sergius to some
of his worst acts of oppression, of coun-
seling Nicholas to wholes#1e murder ef
his subjects.
In the present inflamed state of the
Russian people a weird of the revolu-
tionists- against 'the Dowager Empress
was enough to incite the. unkindest be.
liefs, and two years ago her name ate
peered in the list of individuals to ht
exterminated by the Terrorists. Not
only was her name included on the list,
but formal warning, as is usual, wae
sent her.
At first she refused to believe it. She
even laughed at it as she had been
wont to laugh years ago when death
came near her. Nevertheless her chit-
dren, and chief among them the Czar,
urged her to place herself beyond (hi
reacp of hcr enemies. Whispers*blew
about to •the effect iltat'the Czar would
give into his' Mother's • hands Ins heir
-and only son and that the two would
retire to Denmark to wait for fairer side/
to shine -on troubled Russia. '
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FOR. DOCTORS ONLY.
. .
Novel Features 'at the London Medical
Exhibition.
Medical men with a thirst for fresh
knowledge, .find much to interest them
at the second London Medical E'xhibi.
lion, which •was opened at • the Royal
Horticultural, Hall, Vincent •Square rec.
etlit,11Y.
ie.rsicians and surgeons to the num-
bee of 3,000 visited the first of these ex-
hibitions which are organized by the
"British and Colonial - Druggist.," and
this year many more are expected. TIlt
exlifibition is attended exclusively by
doctors. There are 117 attractive stands
ae compared with fifty-eight last year. ' •
There are many novelties in the
way of • preparations, appliances, and
Scientific discoveries. Anemiaethe lanced
Is a small phial et whitefluld, a so-
• Maori of adrenalita which in solid
form, is 'worth 11,400 a pound. It is
obtained from sheep's kidneys, where
it is found in such minute quantities
that only a pound cent be obtained from
35,000 sheep.
This euhstence discovered by a Ja-
pannse doctor, is • use& foe arresting
caiallary bleeding,' and the treatment
orAclinro()%ilTiclisre°• 11iiturrho.pplitipc,es. ie a toolli-
gll'ouNsolt t‘ti11611 SrIllibtriTor estpisitcess.riletilit.isrs:‘1,:sobrentre
on the end of A finger, rind the rubber
to-rving been dipped into the den.
tifriee, AM Paid to enarch the remotest'
corners of the mosi complicated set of
Thcec is also ill (hedxhibilion whai!
ie believed to leS the only piece of Enge
lish Opium in existence.. It was extract-
ed front poppies grown ,near Peterhof..
°IlAgh‘'\./ell-kf:town phyeeiart Who 'wee a
vi.ifor in the exhibition, told On •
inc 5' eleeseteeeee, why he was there.,
Twenly-eight years of lolly' position 08 al am on the, InOt: old for now WaVg of
11 Okin : 11p proeriptions," he said, !Ili°,
1,(1.1r»15 truelesn patient requires his or
1,"••• m..diekes 1,1,be asfsimilaled erssilye
rn ylt v lees! 0 ettsindively eresent-
s se ,then, StrtdeS eeing
tuud,I. in 'thi directon eeerY •yetieen